MOE’S MARSHALS ARE BARELY HALFWAY TO MEETING LAST YEAR’S RECRUITMENT TARGET

Moe Has Only Hired 27 Marshals, Despite Chief Marshal Promising 50 By End of 2025
SASKATOON– Carla Beck’s team is calling out Scott Moe about why he has only managed to hire 27 Marshals, and only 2 of which are new officers, when his own Chief Marshal promised that 50 would be hired by the end of 2025.

During the graduation of the first officers to be hired into the Saskatchewan Marshal Service, Chief Marshal Rob Cameron said the force would have 50 officers hired by the end of 2025, yet almost a year later; they aren’t even close.

“This goes to show that Scott Moe is completely out of touch on how to recruit officers – instead of wasting millions on building an unnecessary SWAT team, we could be making strategic investments in recruiting for established police forces like the RCMP and municipal police services,” said Hugh Gordon, Associate Shadow Minister for Community Safety.

“We need a government with a plan to recruit officers, not one that puts the cart before the horse on the taxpayer’s dime.”

Sask. Party Community Safety Minister Micharl Weger confirmed in the spring sitting that, of the 27 current-serving Saskatchewan Marshals, only two are new officers – the remaining 25 have been lateral hires from other police forces.

“We continue to see Moe and his minister trying to waste money on ridiculous things like sound cannons when they can’t even find the officers to use them,” said Gordon.

When looking at police spending in other provinces, the Government of Manitoba announced $8 million dollars in their recent budget for strategic police recruitment for the RCMP, after seeing record recruitment the year prior.

When asked by reporters why the Moe government was having so much difficulty recruiting police officers, his Community Safety Minister was quick to downplay his failures, saying that other provinces are facing similar struggles as Saskatchewan.

“It’s honestly embarrassing and a wasteful burden for Saskatchewan taxpayers,” said Gordon. “We see other provinces making real strides towards making their communities safer, while our government can’t even hit their own hiring targets from last year.”

“Clearly, it's time for change.”

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